Treasury release sh.6 billion

Treasury will release sh.6 billion starting next week to benefit women and young people president kibaki announced on Tuesday 12 December. The president who was campaigning at Muthara market in Tigania District said that the cash for the youth enterprise and women funds had been processed and provincial heads of department in relevant ministries are expected to collect it. Each group will receive sh.3 billion from the funds.

Kibaki promised the farmers of the area an electric fence was erected around the Meru National Park to cordon off rogue elephants from destroying crops.

As the president wound up his Meru tour, he declared that none of his challengers had the muscle to defeat him. He also appealed for a violence -free campaign as we grew closer to the election day.

Earlier on at Mutuati trading centre, the Head of State commissioned tarmacking of 37-kilometre Kaweru-Mutuati-Kachulu-Kamwelini road which is expected to be completed by January 2009.